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Publication details [#46657]
Baumann, Stefan. 2006. The Intonation of Givenness. Evidence from German. (Linguistische Arbeiten 508). De Gruyter. VIII+168 pp.
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Annotation
This book uses an autosegmental-metrical intonation model to examine the marking of facets of information structure, focusing on the Given-New dimension. Empirical evidence, based on German, demonstrates that the dichotomy of 'accented' versus 'uncaccented', doesn't match the 'New' versus 'Given' information dichotomy.